Update: I have been hinting for a while that I am making changes regarding the Online Music School and let me give you a quick update on that. The long and short of it is that I am killing it completely for two reasons. First, I have had a hard time reconciling it with my lifestyle […]
There is an elusive idea in the performance of music that we all instinctively know: just playing the notes is not enough. In fact, I would go so far as to say that just playing the notes and observing every other marking on the music (such as dynamics and articulations) is not enough to qualify […]
Here are links to this entire series: Part 1: My story of abuse (Introduction) Part 2: Seven things you need to know about abusers Part 3: Dealing with victims of abuse Part 4: It started with a crossword puzzle Part 5: Getting help for an abuse victim Part 6: Taking the next step Part 7: My […]
I was talking to a well-published arranger maybe a decade ago and she told me she could write an arrangement book in a week. She was still writing out arrangements by hand (rather than software) which made her claim even harder to swallow. Today, I know more and do not doubt that she was telling me […]
Here are links to this entire series: Part 1: My story of abuse (Introduction) Part 2: Seven things you need to know about abusers Part 3: Dealing with victims of abuse Part 4: It started with a crossword puzzle Part 5: Getting help for an abuse victim Part 6: Taking the next step Part 7: My […]
Here are links to this entire series: Part 1: My story of abuse (Introduction) Part 2: Seven things you need to know about abusers Part 3: Dealing with victims of abuse Part 4: It started with a crossword puzzle Part 5: Getting help for an abuse victim Part 6: Taking the next step Part 7: My […]
When I look back over the time I have been a piano player, I can easily see how my thinking has changed over time. I started playing when I was eight and within a few years, was playing in church. Somewhere along the way, I started playing offertory arrangements. Back in those days, options were […]
I laughed when I just wrote the title of this blog post because it reminds me of a few axioms that I live by. You have heard me say them before but indulge me: Those that know the least know it the loudest. Those that know all the answers don’t know all the questions. And […]
Here are links to this entire series: Part 1: My story of abuse (Introduction) Part 2: Seven things you need to know about abusers Part 3: Dealing with victims of abuse Part 4: It started with a crossword puzzle Part 5: Getting help for an abuse victim Part 6: Taking the next step Part 7: My […]
If you have played a lot of my arrangements such as last month’s “I Need Thee Every Hour,” you have seen me do this kind of thing quite a bit: Note what happens in bar 31. You guys know by now that I automatically change almost every V-I progression in music to a ii-V-I. However, […]
Your level of success in business is dependent on many factors and I have been sharing some of them with you over the past few months. Today, I want to talk about another: focus. As I look back over my business career, I can see certain decisions that I made that were very significant. In […]